If our story goes well, we might want to preserve our Sun for sentimental reasons.
We might even want to eat some other stars just to prevent the Sun from expanding and dying.
I would maybe want my kids to look up at a night sky somewhere far away and see a constellation with the little dot humanity came from still being up there.
Concrete existence, they point out, is less resource efficient than dreams of the machine. Hard to tell how much value is tied up in physical form and not computation, if humans would agree on this either way on reflection.
If our story goes well, we might want to preserve our Sun for sentimental reasons.
We might even want to eat some other stars just to prevent the Sun from expanding and dying.
I would maybe want my kids to look up at a night sky somewhere far away and see a constellation with the little dot humanity came from still being up there.
Concrete existence, they point out, is less resource efficient than dreams of the machine. Hard to tell how much value is tied up in physical form and not computation, if humans would agree on this either way on reflection.